Navigating Everyday Life
Exploring the Tension Between Finitude and Transcendence
1st Edition
Published on 7. May 2018
286 pages
979-8-216-30047-2 (ISBN)
Description
Navigating Everyday Life explores the special moments, big and small, that rupture the surface of everyday life and that can help readers adjust to the disrupting effects of major life crises. Peter Adams delves into the two forces, finitude (the aspects that constrain a person to a situation) and transcendence (those aspects that enable movement beyond such constraints). Building on this framework, Adams looks at the processes and circumstances that both facilitate and block the tensions between finitude and transcendence. He then illustrates how these tensions function in the personal and existential challenges faced by five members of a modern suburban family. Their stories traverse life transitions such as separation, depression, chronic illness, injury, violence, addiction, aging, death, and forgiveness. This book is recommended for scholars and others interested in the intersections between psychology and philosophy.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
979-8-216-30047-2 (9798216300472)
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Book
05/2018
Lexington Books
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Person
Peter J. Adams is professor in population health at the University of Auckland.
Content
Chapter 1: Finitude
Chapter 2: Transcendence
Chapter 3: Making Contact
Chapter 4: Arising Tension
Chapter 5: Being Called
Chapter 6: Access Interrupted
Chapter 7: Approaching a Fissure
Chapter 8: The Darker Side
Chapter 9: Navigating Predicaments
Chapter 10: Personal Mortality
Chapter 11: Life Crises
Chapter 12: Journeys of Healing
Chapter 2: Transcendence
Chapter 3: Making Contact
Chapter 4: Arising Tension
Chapter 5: Being Called
Chapter 6: Access Interrupted
Chapter 7: Approaching a Fissure
Chapter 8: The Darker Side
Chapter 9: Navigating Predicaments
Chapter 10: Personal Mortality
Chapter 11: Life Crises
Chapter 12: Journeys of Healing
